Dawn Miles had just left the restroom when she saw Elias Lennox pushing his own wheelchair toward her.

Her expression shifted slightly. She pressed her lips together and hurried forward. "Why are you out here?"

"I needed to use the restroom, too," Elias Lennox said with a smile.

"I’ll take you somewhere else. This one is broken."

For some reason, Dawn Miles didn’t want Elias Lennox to run into the man in the restroom.

"Broken?" Elias Lennox glanced at the restroom in surprise. There wasn’t an ’Out of Order’ sign on the door.

"Mhm."

She quickly pushed him away from the area.

After they left, the man from inside the restroom emerged, clutching his injured wrist. His gaze was complicated.

’Master, it seems we have a problem.’

***

Dawn Miles’s match was scheduled to start at two in the afternoon.

There were only twelve contestants in this Grandmaster-level competition, and the matchups were decided by a draw.

She happened to draw a contestant from a smaller nation, and her match was last in the order, so she sat in the contestant preparation area to wait.

"So you’re the contestant from Luvia?"

The light in front of Dawn Miles dimmed. She looked up and saw a contestant from the Ocrean Empire.

He had blond hair, blue eyes, and very fair skin.

"Can’t people in Luvia even afford to eat?" the Ocrean contestant sneered at her, his face a mask of provocation.

Before Dawn Miles could say anything, another contestant from Luvia beside her shot back angrily, "What stray dog is barking over here?"

The two almost came to blows, but luckily, staff members were nearby to hold them back.

The Ocrean contestant tilted his head up slightly and snorted. "Just you wait. You’ll all be crying by the end of this!"

Dawn Miles glanced at the man beside him—the one from the restroom—and retorted, "Is your wrist feeling better?"

The man froze for a moment, then replied, "I hope you’ll go easy on me."

"Aiden, no need to be polite with him. Let’s go—"

Dawn Miles watched the man’s back as he left, a flicker of confusion in her eyes. ’He seems strangely familiar.’

In the Martial World, the higher the level of the competitors, the faster the matches. This was because High Rank Martial Artists had already refined their techniques to their simplest, most effective forms, stripping away flashy, useless moves in favor of the most direct and potent attacks.

Often, by the time the audience saw one or two moves exchanged, the fighters had actually traded dozens of blows, each one lethal and merciless.

But when Dawn Miles took the stage, she didn’t even bother showing the crowd one or two moves. Seconds after the whistle blew, her opponent was already unconscious on the floor.

A one-punch KO. There were no special techniques—just a simple, straight punch.

Below the ring, Aiden Morgan’s eyes lit up. He had seen Aurora Sinclair fight before, and her moves were always this concise. She never wasted a single bit of extra effort if one punch would do.

Because she won almost every match with a single punch, it nearly made the audience suspect the Luvian contestants were throwing their fights.

Everyone was eagerly anticipating the contestant from the Ocrean Empire teaching her a lesson, but he was also knocked out cold with a single punch.

After a moment of stunned silence, the arena erupted in fervent cheers.

The contestant "Knight" had achieved legendary status in a single day.

The hype surrounding her even overshadowed the matches of several Martial Kings.

The final match was between Dawn Miles and Aiden Morgan.

After stepping into the ring, Aiden Morgan immediately stopped the referee from blowing the whistle and said to her in a low voice, "I forfeit. But can I talk to you alone?"

Dawn Miles sized him up for a moment, said nothing, and turned to leave.

"Wait!" Aiden Morgan shouted.

But the referee had already blocked his path and announced that the Luvian Empire was the winner of the match.

Elias Lennox watched the scene in the ring, his hands clenching tightly on his lap.

As soon as Dawn Miles returned, he immediately asked, "Rory, what did that guy from the Ocrean Empire say to you?"

Dawn Miles paused for a second, then replied quietly, "He wanted to talk to me."

"You can’t go! They just want to persuade you to go back—" Elias Lennox suddenly shouted, his eyes filled with anxiety.

Dawn Miles bent down, placed her hands on his shoulders, and soothed him gently. "I won’t go."

"Rory, as soon as we get the prize money, we’re leaving."

"But your injuries..."

"It’s fine. We need to leave the Continent of Southeland as soon as possible."

A murderous glint flashed in Elias Lennox’s eyes. He had let her be exposed to the cameras, thinking it was a clever reverse-psychology move that would make people not suspect them.

He never thought that even after Aurora Sinclair had changed so much, someone would still be able to recognize her.

’Is it The Phantom Trove, or The Morgans?’

"Rory, the people hunting us have arrived."

Dawn Miles glanced back at Aiden Morgan, a cold light flickering in her eyes.

***

Through close observation, Aiden Morgan had deduced that the boy named "Knight" might be Aurora Sinclair.

It was just that her reaction was a bit strange.

The way she looked at him was like he was a complete stranger, as if she didn’t know him at all.

Aiden Morgan asked Dees to find a way for him to meet the boy named "Knight" alone.

But to his surprise, after collecting the prize money, "Knight" left the competition venue and headed straight for the airport.

Such a hasty departure was highly suspicious.

BZZZT—

His phone buzzed. It was a call from Alvin Morgan.

"Master..."

"Where is the boy from the competition?" The voice on the other end was extremely urgent.

Aiden Morgan had only been eighty percent sure that the boy was Aurora Sinclair, which was why he had requested the match footage to send to his master. But now, it seemed it was one hundred percent certain that the boy was Aurora Sinclair.

"Master... she has returned to Luvia."

This sentence seemed to touch upon some taboo, and the other end of the line fell silent.

Aiden Morgan’s heart tightened, and he quickly added, "Master, she didn’t seem to recognize me."

Aiden Morgan recalled the boy’s eyes and said hesitantly, "The way she looked at me was so unfamiliar... It didn’t seem like an act."

This time, the voice finally returned: "Wait for me there!"

The call was promptly disconnected.

Aiden Morgan pinched the bridge of his nose, a headache coming on. ’My master can’t leave Kingsford right now.’

Meanwhile, Dawn Miles, who had just gotten into a royal motorcade car, cleanly knocked out the driver from behind with a single karate chop and took the vehicle.

"Rory..."

Elias Lennox stared in disbelief at the girl now sitting in the driver’s seat.

She looked at him, her face calm. "Where do you want to go?"

"I..."

"Aren’t we escaping? Where do you want to go?"

Her pure, untainted eyes made Elias Lennox’s heart tremble.

He averted his gaze, flustered.

"Drive west. It’s close to the sea over there."

"Okay..."

Under Elias Lennox’s direction, they first exchanged a large amount of cash at a bank. They then abandoned the car, went to a large mall to change their appearances, and finally took a taxi toward a remote town.

In the Luvian Empire, apart from the major cities which were full of surveillance cameras, these small towns had practically none.

After arriving in one town, the two flagged down a local car, preparing to head to the next one.

Unexpectedly, the driver of this car saw they were outsiders and tried to rob them.

But he was knocked unconscious by her, and they stole another car, continuing to drive west.

The pair stuck to the roads connecting small towns and, after five or six days, finally arrived at a remote town on the westernmost edge of Luvia, where they finally settled down for a bit.

Dawn Miles watched the wanted notice playing on the TV and calmly sipped her soup.

"Brother, when are we leaving?"

Elias Lennox, tapping away at a second-hand computer on the table, broke into a charming smile. "Tomorrow at two in the afternoon, there’s a private boat leaving Corhaven."

Dawn Miles slurped up some noodles and peeked over. The screen was filled with lines of code she couldn’t understand.

Elias Lennox had been tinkering with this computer for days, and she had no idea what he was doing.

"Rory, we’re going home soon," Elias Lennox said, reaching out to stroke her hair.

"Mhm."

Suddenly, he pulled her into his arms, feeling her warmth, and murmured as if in a reverie, "You’re finally by my side..."

"Haven’t I always been here?"

Elias Lennox froze. "Yes... we’re finally going home together..." 𝚏𝐫𝚎𝗲𝕨𝐞𝐛𝕟𝚘𝐯𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝗺

’Finally, you’re not just a cold photograph anymore.’

A satisfied smile slowly spread across his lips.

Images of the girl’s photos flashed through his mind.

...

"Elias, this is your junior sister from Veridia, Dawn Miles."

"Elias, she’s a martial arts genius, the likes of which are seen only once a century."

"Elias, her power has already surpassed that of a Martial King..."

"Elias..."

...

"When will I get to meet her?"